Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,523 6,218 6,754
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.41% 22.68% 20.80%
As % of the General category 32.94% 35.31% 35.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,314 4,163 4,443
10th Percentile £360 £348 £363
25th Percentile £450 £420 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.75%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £795 £800 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £536 £575
% change year-on-year +2.61% -6.78% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 98 123
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.48 £14.60
25th Percentile £20.73 £18.91 £23.82
Median hourly rate £43.96 £28.91 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.06% -17.40% +36.13%
75th Percentile - £63.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.36 £80.75 £73.25
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £28.55 £33.00
% change year-on-year +53.98% -13.48% +28.35%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 25,874 17,612 18,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.90% 64.23% 58.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,203 11,142 11,529
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,256 1,011 945
10th Percentile £13.63 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.17 £17.50
Median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £38.85
Median % change year-on-year +23.88% -35.26% +33.97%
75th Percentile £57.00 £46.47 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £72.10
UK median hourly rate £29.78 £25.15 £35.36
% change year-on-year +18.41% -28.87% +28.58%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 22 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 22 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 22 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 5,165 £590 - 13,748
North of England 0 1,337 £514 +10.72% 2,195
South East -1 728 £500 -2.44% 2,237
North West -1 645 £500 +11.11% 1,304
Yorkshire 0 612 £525 +5.00% 684
Midlands -3 598 £507 +6.74% 1,213
West Midlands -2 443 £525 +1.01% 767
South West -6 355 £525 -8.70% 1,095
East of England +3 208 £549 -4.52% 685
East Midlands -4 152 £500 +19.76% 445
North East -3 73 £500 +13.96% 240
South Coast - 1 £450 -
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 287 (3.37%) Confluence
2 237 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 82 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 73 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 56 (0.66%) Apache
6 43 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.35%) CMS
8 24 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
8 24 (0.28%) SAS
9 15 (0.18%) Camunda
9 15 (0.18%) IIS
9 15 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.11%) CICS
11 7 (0.082%) Ethereum
12 6 (0.070%) Appian
12 6 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.070%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.059%) WebSphere
13 5 (0.059%) WordPress
14 4 (0.047%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 473 (5.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 189 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 178 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 130 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
5 72 (0.84%) MS Visio
6 56 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
7 27 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.094%) Trello
9 7 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.082%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.047%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.047%) Sketch
11 3 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.035%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.035%) Final Cut Pro
11 3 (0.035%) Notion
11 3 (0.035%) Oracle Smart View
11 3 (0.035%) Windchill
12 2 (0.023%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 332 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 111 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
3 101 (1.19%) NetSuite
4 94 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
5 80 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
6 73 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
7 61 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
8 59 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
9 45 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
10 41 (0.48%) SAP FI
11 40 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 40 (0.47%) Workday HCM
12 33 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
13 31 (0.36%) Aladdin
13 31 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
14 29 (0.34%) SAP CO
15 24 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
15 24 (0.28%) SAP BRIM
15 24 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
16 23 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,370 (16.07%) Azure
2 956 (11.22%) AWS
3 587 (6.89%) Power Platform
4 483 (5.67%) GCP
5 302 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
6 288 (3.38%) SaaS
7 285 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
8 284 (3.33%) GitHub
9 216 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
9 216 (2.53%) Entra ID
10 194 (2.28%) Snowflake
11 140 (1.64%) Serverless
12 121 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
13 119 (1.40%) Power Automate
14 118 (1.38%) dbt
15 115 (1.35%) Amazon S3
16 108 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
17 98 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
17 98 (1.15%) OCI
18 93 (1.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 156 (1.83%) Firewall
2 139 (1.63%) Network Security
3 99 (1.16%) VPN
4 77 (0.90%) DNS
5 50 (0.59%) TCP/IP
6 48 (0.56%) DHCP
7 45 (0.53%) WAN
8 42 (0.49%) BGP
9 37 (0.43%) SSL
10 33 (0.39%) VLAN
11 32 (0.38%) Multicast
12 29 (0.34%) Wireless
13 25 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
14 23 (0.27%) LAN
15 22 (0.26%) HTTP
15 22 (0.26%) OSPF
15 22 (0.26%) SAN
16 21 (0.25%) Internet
17 15 (0.18%) Broadband
18 13 (0.15%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 478 (5.61%) Power BI
2 247 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 230 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 166 (1.95%) Metadata
5 145 (1.70%) Relational Database
6 120 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
7 112 (1.31%) Data Lake
8 105 (1.23%) Tableau
9 78 (0.92%) NoSQL
10 71 (0.83%) BigQuery
11 66 (0.77%) Oracle Database
12 60 (0.70%) MongoDB
13 54 (0.63%) Power Query
14 52 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
15 48 (0.56%) Delta Lake
16 46 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
17 40 (0.47%) Big Data
18 35 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
19 34 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
19 34 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 572 (6.71%) JIRA
2 265 (3.11%) Git
3 150 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 99 (1.16%) GitLab
5 60 (0.70%) Selenium
6 45 (0.53%) JUnit
7 34 (0.40%) SonarQube
8 33 (0.39%) Bitbucket
9 32 (0.38%) Cucumber
10 29 (0.34%) Claude Code
10 29 (0.34%) REST Assured
10 29 (0.34%) Visual Studio
11 28 (0.33%) Maven
12 26 (0.31%) Gradle
13 23 (0.27%) Cypress.io
14 22 (0.26%) ERwin
14 22 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
15 20 (0.23%) Postman
16 17 (0.20%) Zephyr
17 16 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 2,665 (31.27%) Social Skills
2 1,819 (21.34%) Banking
3 1,257 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 440 (5.16%) Public Sector
5 429 (5.03%) Legal
6 369 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
7 341 (4.00%) Retail
8 332 (3.90%) Investment Banking
9 307 (3.60%) Front Office
10 306 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
11 283 (3.32%) Financial Institution
12 184 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 176 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
14 172 (2.02%) Manufacturing
15 158 (1.85%) Marketing
16 151 (1.77%) General Ledger
17 147 (1.72%) Billing
18 141 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
19 134 (1.57%) Local Government
20 130 (1.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,228 (14.41%) Analyst
2 966 (11.33%) Senior
3 866 (10.16%) Lead
4 854 (10.02%) Developer
5 750 (8.80%) Architect
6 620 (7.27%) Business Analyst
7 584 (6.85%) Project Manager
8 566 (6.64%) Consultant
9 289 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
10 264 (3.10%) Data Engineer
11 234 (2.75%) Financial Analyst
12 201 (2.36%) Senior Manager
13 177 (2.08%) Senior Developer
14 172 (2.02%) Java Developer
14 172 (2.02%) Programme Manager
15 171 (2.01%) Data Analyst
15 171 (2.01%) IT Manager
16 161 (1.89%) Accountant
17 155 (1.82%) Finance Manager
18 141 (1.65%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 336 (3.94%) Terraform
2 331 (3.88%) REST
3 249 (2.92%) .NET
4 227 (2.66%) Kafka
5 220 (2.58%) React
6 217 (2.55%) Oracle Fusion
7 167 (1.96%) Spring
8 166 (1.95%) Middleware
9 163 (1.91%) Spring Boot
10 127 (1.49%) PySpark
11 117 (1.37%) RESTful
12 88 (1.03%) OAuth
13 83 (0.97%) JSON
14 82 (0.96%) XML
15 78 (0.92%) SOAP
16 77 (0.90%) Redux
17 72 (0.84%) Node.js
18 69 (0.81%) AngularJS
19 68 (0.80%) HTML
20 65 (0.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 475 (5.57%) Onboarding
2 452 (5.30%) Product Ownership
3 397 (4.66%) Cloud Native
4 237 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 219 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
6 208 (2.44%) Data Structures
7 178 (2.09%) AI Agents
8 177 (2.08%) Virtual Team
9 172 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
10 171 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
11 164 (1.92%) Derivative
12 159 (1.87%) Data Centre
13 146 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 136 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
15 115 (1.35%) Fixed Income
16 114 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
17 105 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
18 99 (1.16%) Equities
19 98 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
20 93 (1.09%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 346 (4.06%) Windows
2 272 (3.19%) Linux
3 138 (1.62%) Unix
4 82 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 54 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (0.52%) Apple iOS
7 38 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 36 (0.42%) Android
9 30 (0.35%) Solaris
10 29 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 29 (0.34%) zOS
11 11 (0.13%) Ubuntu
11 11 (0.13%) VMS
12 10 (0.12%) AIX
13 7 (0.082%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.070%) HPUX
14 6 (0.070%) SUSE
15 5 (0.059%) CentOS
16 4 (0.047%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.035%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,339 (27.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,786 (20.96%) Agile
3 1,150 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
4 1,147 (13.46%) Migration
5 1,145 (13.43%) AI
6 1,020 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 983 (11.53%) CI/CD
8 981 (11.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 903 (10.59%) Analytics
10 873 (10.24%) DevOps
11 849 (9.96%) Decision-Making
12 821 (9.63%) ERP
13 795 (9.33%) Roadmaps
14 763 (8.95%) Validation
15 698 (8.19%) Project Management
16 665 (7.80%) Data Modelling
17 650 (7.63%) Change Management
18 632 (7.42%) User Acceptance Testing
19 616 (7.23%) Risk Management
20 580 (6.81%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,179 (13.83%) SQL
2 1,063 (12.47%) Python
3 564 (6.62%) Java
4 334 (3.92%) C#
5 260 (3.05%) PowerShell
6 229 (2.69%) JavaScript
7 204 (2.39%) TypeScript
8 132 (1.55%) Bash
9 98 (1.15%) PL/SQL
10 79 (0.93%) Shell Script
11 60 (0.70%) C++
12 58 (0.68%) T-SQL
13 56 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 53 (0.62%) Bicep
15 48 (0.56%) Korn
16 45 (0.53%) Go
17 36 (0.42%) Scala
17 36 (0.42%) VBA
18 34 (0.40%) Kotlin
19 33 (0.39%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 676 (7.93%) Security Cleared
2 665 (7.80%) Degree
3 473 (5.55%) SC Cleared
4 245 (2.87%) PMP
5 211 (2.48%) PMI Certification
6 195 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 182 (2.14%) ACCA
8 159 (1.87%) CIMA
9 132 (1.55%) DV Cleared
10 128 (1.50%) CISSP
11 119 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
12 108 (1.27%) Azure Certification
13 73 (0.86%) AWS Certification
13 73 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
14 69 (0.81%) Master's Degree
15 65 (0.76%) CISM
16 47 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
17 45 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 38 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 36 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 626 (7.34%) Data Quality
2 373 (4.38%) QA
3 322 (3.78%) PMO
4 188 (2.21%) GDPR
5 133 (1.56%) NIST
6 113 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 103 (1.21%) GRC
8 99 (1.16%) Accessibility
9 93 (1.09%) IFRS
10 83 (0.97%) SLA
11 62 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 52 (0.61%) ISO 20022
13 45 (0.53%) GAAP
14 39 (0.46%) PCI DSS
15 32 (0.38%) Solvency II
16 31 (0.36%) SEPA
17 26 (0.31%) COBIT
18 24 (0.28%) MiFID
19 19 (0.22%) Basel III
19 19 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 229 (2.69%) Docker
2 228 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 81 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 27 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (0.28%) vSphere
6 20 (0.23%) RACF
7 16 (0.19%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.12%) NFS
11 8 (0.094%) IAG
12 6 (0.070%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.047%) ACF2
14 4 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.035%) GPFS
15 3 (0.035%) KVM
15 3 (0.035%) Time Sharing Option
16 2 (0.023%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 398 (4.67%) Kubernetes
2 165 (1.94%) Ansible
3 83 (0.97%) Grafana
4 78 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 63 (0.74%) SCCM
6 60 (0.70%) Prometheus
6 60 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.28%) Control-M
7 24 (0.28%) Progress Chef
8 17 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (0.18%) Argo
10 14 (0.16%) OMEGAMON
11 11 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 11 (0.13%) FortiGate
12 10 (0.12%) HP ALM
12 10 (0.12%) Packer
13 9 (0.11%) vRealize
14 8 (0.094%) CA Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.094%) ITRS Geneos
14 8 (0.094%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 1,251 (14.68%) Microsoft
2 730 (8.57%) Oracle
3 671 (7.87%) SAP
4 333 (3.91%) ServiceNow
5 314 (3.68%) Databricks
6 219 (2.57%) Salesforce
7 204 (2.39%) Google
8 161 (1.89%) IBM
9 129 (1.51%) VMware
10 127 (1.49%) Workday
11 111 (1.30%) Cisco
12 106 (1.24%) Splunk
13 84 (0.99%) CyberArk
14 77 (0.90%) OpenAI
15 65 (0.76%) Ariba
16 54 (0.63%) Bloomberg
17 51 (0.60%) Citrix
18 48 (0.56%) Murex
19 46 (0.54%) Red Hat
19 46 (0.54%) Sage